Basic Reference List for the IIPF Doctoral School 2016 on “Social Insurance Programs”
Prof. Luigi Pistaferri
Taxes and Labor Supply
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Keane, Michael P (2011), "Labor Supply and Taxes: A Survey." Journal of Economic Literature,
49(4): 961-1075.
Blundell, Richard, Luigi Pistaferri and Itay Saporta-Eksten (2016). "Consumption inequality and
family labor supply", American Economic Review 106(2), 387-435.
Chetty, Raj, John Friedman, Tore Olsen and Luigi Pistaferri (2011), “Adjustment Costs, Firm
Responses, and Micro vs. Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Danish Tax Records”,
Quarterly Journal of Economics 126(2), 749-804, 2011.
Disability Insurance
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Bound, John and Richard V. Burkhauser (2002), “Economic analysis of transfer programs
targeted on people with disabilities”, Handbook of Labor Economics, 3, 3417-3528.
Low, Hamish and Luigi Pistaferri (2015), “Disability insurance and the dynamics of the incentiveinsurance tradeoff”, American Economic Review 105(10): 2986-3029.
Autor, David H, and Mark G. Duggan (2003), “The Rise in the Disability Rolls and the Decline in
Unemployment”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(1).
Welfare Cultures
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Dahl, Gordon, A. Kostol and Magne Mogstad (2014), “Family Welfare Cultures” Quarterly
Journal of Economics, 129, 1711-1752, 2014.
Bertrand, Marianne, Sendhil Mullainathan and Erzo Luttmer (2000), “Network Effects and
Welfare Cultures", The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115(3), pp. 1019-1055.
Welfare Reform and Economic Behavior
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Moffitt, Robert A. (2002). "Welfare programs and labor supply," Handbook of Public Economics,
in: A. J. Auerbach & M. Feldstein (ed.), Handbook of Public Economics, edition 1, volume 4,
chapter 34, pages 2393-2430.
Kline, Patrick and Melissa Tartari (2016), “Bounding the Labor Supply Responses to a
Randomized Welfare Experiment: A Revealed Preference Approach”, American Economic
Review, 106, pp. 972-1014.
Grogger, Jeffrey and Charles Michalopoulos. 2003. “Welfare Dynamics under Time
Limits.” Journal of Political Economy 111(3): 530-554.
IIPF Doctoral School 2016 on “Social Insurance Programs” Josef Zweimüller, University of Zurich Basic literature (preliminary) Unemployment Durations and Optimal Unemployment Insurance (*) Chetty, Raj. 2006. “A General Formula for Optimal Level of Social Insurance,” Journal of Public Economics 90:1879-­‐1901. (*) Lalive, Rafael, Jan van Ours, and Josef Zweimüller. 2006. “How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment” Review of Economic Studies, 73, 1009-­‐1038. (*) Johannes Schmieder and Till von Wachter. 2016. “Effects of Unemployment Insurance: New Evidence and Interpretation,” Annual Review of Economics, forthcoming. Card, David, David S. Lee, David S. Weber. 2015. Inference on Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design,” Econometrica 83: 2453–2483 Chetty, Raj. 2008. “Moral Hazard vs. Liquidity and Optimal Unemployment Insurance,” Journal of Political Economy 116: 173-­‐234. Ganong, Peter and Pascal Noel. 2016. How Does Unemployment Affect Consumer Spending?, mimeo, Harvard University. Katz, Larry and Bruce Meyer. 1990. “The Impact of the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits on the Duration of Unemployment,” Journal of Public Economics 41: 45-­‐72. Gruber, Jonathan. 1997. “The Consumption Smoothing Benefits of Unemployment Insurance.” American Economic Review 87: 192–205. Kolsrud, J., C Landais, P Nilsson and J Spinnewijn. 2015. The Optimal Timing of Unemployment Benefits: Theory and Evidence from Sweden, mimeo, LSE. Kroft, Kory and Matt Notowidigdo. 2016. “Should Unemployment Insurance Vary with the Unemployment Rate?”, Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming. Meyer, Bruce. 1990. “Unemployment Duration and Unemployment Spells,” Econometrica 58: 757–82. Schmieder, Johannes, Till von Wachter, and Stefan Bender. 2016. “The Effect of Unemployment Benefits and Nonemployment Durations on Wages,” American Economic Review, forthcoming. Schmieder, Johannes, Till von Wachter, and Stefan Bender. 2012. “The Effect of Unemployment Benefits over the Business Cycle: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Estimates over 20 Years,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 127: 701-­‐752. Mirco and Macro Effect of Unemployment Insurance (*) Lalive, Rafael, Camille Landais, and Josef Zweimüller. 2015. “Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs, American Economic Review 105: 3564-­‐3596. 1
(*) Landais, Camille, Pascal Michaillat, and Emmanuel Saez. 2015. A Macroeconomic Approach to Optimal Unemployment Insurance I: Theory, mimeo, LSE, UC Berkeley. Chodorow-­‐Reich, Gabriel and Loukas Karabuonis. 2016. “The Limited Macroeconomic Effects of Unemployment Benefit Extensions,” mimeo, Harvard University. Crepon, Bruno, Esther Duflo, Marc Gurgand, Roland Rathelot, and Philippe Zamora. 2013. “Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effect? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 128: 531–580. Hagedorn, Marcus, Fatih Karahan, Iourii Manovskii, and Kurt Mitman. 2013. Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment in the Great Recession: The Role of Macro Effects. NBER Working Paper 19499. Johnston, Andrew C. and Alexandre Mas. 2015. Potential Unemployment Insurance Duration and Labor Supply: The Individual and Market-­‐Level Response to a Benefit Cut, mimeo, Princeton University. Marinescu, Ioana. 2015. “The General Equilibrium Impacts of Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from a Large Online Job Board.” mimeo, University of Chicago. UI, DI, and Early Retirement (*) Inderbitzin, Lukas, Stefan Staubli and Josef Zweimüller. 2016. “Extended Unemployment Benefits and Early Retirement: Program Complementarity and Program Substitution,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 8 (2016): 253-­‐288, (with). (*) Mueller, Andreas, Jesse Rothstein and Till von Wachter. 2016. “Unemployment Insurance and Disability Insurance in the Great Recession,” Journal of Labor Economics 34: 445-­‐475. Autor, David H., and Mark G. Duggan. 2003. “The Rise in the Disability Rolls and the Decline in Unemployment.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 118: 157-­‐205. Staubli, Stefan. 2011. “The Impact of Stricter Criteria for Disability Insurance on Labor Force Participation,” Journal of Public Economics 95: 1223–1235. Wise, David A. (ed.). 2016. Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: Disability Insurance Programs and Retirement, NBER volume, University of Chicago Press. Autor, David H. and Mark G. Duggan. 2007. “Distinguishing Income from Substitution Effects in Disability Insurance,” American Economic Review (P&P) 97: 119-­‐124. Autor, David H., Mark G. Duggan, Kyle Greenberg, and David S. Lyle. 2015. “The Impact of Disability Benefits on Labor Supply: Evidence for the VA’s Disability Compensation Program.” Social Security Reforms and Retirement Behavior (*) Brinch, Christian, Ola Vestad and Josef Zweimüller. 2016. Excess Early Retirement: Evidence from the Norwegian 2011 Pension Reform, mimeo, University of Zurich. (*) Manoli, Day and Andrea Weber. 2015. “Nonparametric Evidence of the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions,” NBER Working Paper No.17320 (version May 2015). Engelhardt, Gary, and Anil Kumar. 2014. "Taxes and the Labor Supply of Older Americans: Recent 2
Evidence from the Social Security Earnings Test," National Tax Journal 67: 443-­‐ 458. Friedberg, Leora. 2000. “The Labor Supply Effects of the Social Security Earnings Test”, Review of Economics and Statistics 82: 48-­‐63. Krueger, Alan B. and Jörn-­‐Steffen Pischke. 1992. “The Effect of Social Security on Labor Supply: A Cohort Analysis of the Notch Generation”, Journal of Labor Economics 10: 412-­‐437. Liebman, Jeffrey B., Erzo F.P. Luttmer, and David Seif. 2009. "Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits: Evidence from Discontinuities," Journal of Public Economics: 1208-­‐1223. Mastrobuoni, Giovanni. 2009. Labor supply effects of the recent social security benefit cuts: Empirical estimates using cohort discontinuities. Journal of Public Economics 93: 1224–1233. Staubli, Stefan and Josef Zweimüller. 2013. “Does Raising the Early Retirement Age Increase Employment of Older Workers?” Journal of Public Economics 108: 17-­‐32. 3